WCP1977

Letter (WCP1977.4110)

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Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon.

Sept[embe]r. 14th. 1878

Dear Darwin

An appointment is soon to be made of someone to have the superintendence of Epping Forest under the new Act, and as it is a post which of all others I should like I am trying very hard to get up interest enough to secure it. One of the means is the enclosed memorial, which has been already signed by Sir J[oseph] Hooker and Sir J[ohn] Lubbock & to which I feel sure you will add your name, which I expect has weight "even in the City".

For want of anything better to [2] do I have been grinding away at a book on geography of Australasia for Stanford for the last 6 months.

Hoping you are in good health and with my best Compliments to Mrs. Darwin and the rest of your family

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

C. Darwin Esq.

1
A R Wallace is written in a different hand at the top of the first sheet of the letter.

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Transcription (WCP1977.1867)

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To C.Darwin.) Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon. Sept.14th 1878

Dear Darwin

An appointment is soon to be made of someone to have the superintendence of Epping Forest under the new Act, and as it is a post which of all others I should like I am trying very hard to get up interest enough to secure it.

One of the means is the enclosed memorial which has been already signed by Sir J.Hooker & Sir J.Lubbock & to which I feel sure you w will add your name, which I expect has weight "even in the City".

In want of anything better to do I have been grinding away at a book on geography of Australia for Stanford for the last 6 months.

Hoping you are in good health and with my best compliments to Mrs Darwin & the rest of your family Believe me

Yours every faithfully Alfred R. Wallace

1
The page is numbered (1), and subsequently struck out in pencil.

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Transcription (WCP1977.4475)

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To C[harles]. Darwin.) Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon, Sept[ember].14th 1878

Dear Darwin

An appointment is soon to be made of someone to have the superintendence of Epping Forest under the new Act1, and as it is a post which of all others I should like I am trying very hard to get up interest enough to secure it.

One of the means is the enclosed memorial which has been already signed by Sir J. Hooker2 & Sir J. Lubbock3 & to which I feel sure you w will add your name, which I expect ahs weight "even in the bity".

In want of anything better to do I have been grinding away at a book on geography of Australia for Stanford for the last 6 months.

Hoping you are in good health and with my best compliments to Mrs Darwin and the rest of your family.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R.Wallace. [signature]

1
Reference to the Epping Forest Act 1878
2
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 — 10 December 1911)
3
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC (Privy Councilor), FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) (30 April 1834 — 28 May 1913)

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Published letter (WCP1977.6075)

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Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon. September 14, 1878.

Dear Darwin, — An appointment is soon to be made of someone to have the superintendence of Epping Forest1 under the new Act,2 and as it is a post which of all others I should like I am trying very hard to get up interest enough to secure it. [2] [p. 303]

One of the means is the enclosed memorial, which has been already signed by Sir J. Hooker3 and Sir J. Lubbock,4 and to which I feel sure you will add your name, which I expect has weight "even in the City."

In want of anything better to do I have been grinding away at a book on the Geography of Australia5 for Stanford6 for the last six months.

Hoping you are in good health, and with my best compliments to Mrs. Darwin7 and the rest of your family, believe me yours very faithfully, | ALFRED R. WALLACE.

1
An ancient woodland on the border between London and Essex.
2
The Epping Forest Act 1878 saved the woodland from enclosure, and placed it in the care of the City of London Corporation who act as Conservators.
3
Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911). British botanist and explorer.
4
Lubbock, John (1834-1913). British banker and polymath.
5
Wallace, A.R. (1879) 'Australasia' London, UK: Edward Stanford
6
Stanford, Edward (1827-1904). Publisher; founder of Stanford's Ltd.
7
Darwin (née Wedgwood), Emma (1808-1896). Wife and first cousin of Charles Robert Darwin.

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Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2019-12-17]

Please cite as “WCP1977,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1977